The latest and greatest news about celebrity chefs, served up buffet style.
– Wait…there’s an Indian food show on television? On American television? Really?
– Easy Joke Alert: People were angry when they couldn’t get in to a taping of Emeril’s show. Even more angry? The people who did get in.
After the jump…a Philly chef gets southern and stays local and Cat Cora gets herself some of that Oprah money.
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The latest and greatest news about celebrity chefs, served up buffet style.
– It’s Beer Week here in Philadelphia — a celebration of the wonderfully vibrant beer culture of the city. Unfortunately, our toddlers have shitty taste. Seriously, kid…Miller Lite?
– Paula Deen gets a little handsey with The Situation. Also getting handsey? Paula’s maid, who helped herself to $10K worth of the food personality’s jewelry.
After the jump…a lesson in marketing.
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The latest and greatest news about celebrity chefs, served up buffet style.
– Lots of local news from Phoodie: Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro (seen above across from my office…really!!) are in Philly shooting The Dark Fields and they grabbed dinner at Cuba Libre.
– Iron Chef Jose Garces is firing up a taco truck and will be announcing its location daily via Twitter. And there goes my productivity out the door.
After the jump…we get nostalgic about lunch and cartoons, and the latest news about successful people recognizing the accomplishments of other successful people.
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The latest and greatest news about celebrity chefs, served up buffet style.
– The Beards were announced. Big winner is Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio. Lots of happiness in the TVFF household when the chef at Philly’s Osteria won for Mid-Atlantic.
– And the full run-down of Beard media award winners. I’m sure ours is coming next year.
After the jump…we take a trip down to the mouth of The Mighty Mississip and we ponder if it’s actually “news” that Duff Goldman is in the paper for baking a cake.
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Last week I was in Philadelphia for my 9-5. But what’s funny about Philly is, even though it’s my hometown city, I barely know about it. I lived on the other side of the *bridge* and crossing that bridge was portrayed as such a big deal, such a hardship, such a production that it almost never occurred. And what my mom said goes, if she didn’t do Philly, we didn’t do Philly.
Of course, I still knew, and benefited from, many of Philly’s culinary offerings.
The soft pretzel. I never knew the soft pretzel was special to Philly. When I was little I thought all cities were filled with pretzel street vendors.
After a very brief google search, and a hunch of my own, it looks like Philly owes its signature snack to the Pennsylvania Dutch. The pretzels here are not dipped in butter and shaped like shoelaces, but have a crust, yet are soft and chewy inside. They do not need mustard. The office where I was working receives a weekly present of pretzels from a previously satisfied client. Pretzels are not just a snack, but a gesture of thanks, good taste and local flare.
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Apparently, a few weeks ago, all of the food in Philadelphia got a whole lot less healthy for you overnight.
I’m not sure exactly how it happened, but things I had been eating with regularity — burritos, hamburgers and bagels — had immediately gone from perfectly reasonable lunchtime fare to only-as-a-special-occasion indulgence with startling speed. OK, so the food didn’t actually get worse…it was just that Philly became the latest city to institute a new rule requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts for all menu items.
This is no fun.
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It goes without saying that cooking should be fun. I know what you’re thinking: I have LOTS of fun! Eating, maybe. But the truth is preparing a meal can be a stressful act, especially when trying to impress someone with that big ambitious dish. Which makes it that much more rewarding when you find a dish where the process is just as much fun as the outcome. If you’re looking to bring a little more enjoyment into the kitchen, spätzle is the thing for you.
A recent trip to Reading Terminal Market (i.e. Foodie Paradise) here in Philly got me in a German/Eastern Europe mood and I picked up some kielbasa and sauerkraut from AJ Pickle Patch. Needing a suitable starch to go along with this meat & cabbage feast, I decided to have a go at homemade spätzle.
The ingredients are simple, but it’s all about technique for this one…
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